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Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March — Apple's not holding an event in February. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. — Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events.

Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …

Steve Jobs' FBI File Released — The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file. Read it here. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President's Export Council in the Bush I White House …

Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100 — Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …

Google Social is Exploding Online! — Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …

Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale — It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android? — From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge. — It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) …

Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake — Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in the process of raising a US$3 billion loan from around six banks to buy back the stake that Yahoo Inc. owns in the company, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.

No New Mail? Try Google+ — What's the message displayed by Gmail when there's no message in your inbox? If you answered “No new mail! Want to read updates from your favorite sites? Try Google Reader”, you are right. It was Google's subtle way to promote Google Reader.

File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era — On January 18, 2012 global file sharing traffic collapsed. In a series of coordinate raids, US and New Zealand authorities seized thousands of MegaUpload servers and arrested its founder (at his own birthday party, no less).

End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business — Eastman Kodak has shocked the world today, announcing that it has put an end to its camera business. — By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames, the company announced today.

Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell — New CEO Aims to Reduce Emphasis on Ads, Boost Commission Revenue — New Chief Executive Scott Thompson's plan for turning around Yahoo Inc. is beginning to take shape: He wants to push the Internet company away from its advertising roots …

Stealing Your Address Book — It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference.